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<blockquote data-quote="Anymulewilldo" data-source="post: 6994992" data-attributes="member: 144597"><p>I tried it once. 3/4 kiwi fresian, 1/4 jersey. £10/calf at 10 days. got 10 so could run as a batch. like you say, drank as much as a proper calf (would have cost £60 then) ate as much as a proper calf and looked still sh!t at 14 months when the proper calves are finished and gone at 12 months! saved £50 incoming cost, took £110 less for them. and the grass rat dairy men can't understand why I don't want anything to do with them!</p><p></p><p>One of my mates bought a ruck of 1/2 kiwi 1/2 jersey calves again £10 each. told me that the way too make them pay was to cut and turn out. he kept them till 27 months and just dumped them in the store market at the end. he just couldn't get them to hold flesh. was feeding them good forage in the winter, not skimping I would have said. gone back to Holsteins now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anymulewilldo, post: 6994992, member: 144597"] I tried it once. 3/4 kiwi fresian, 1/4 jersey. £10/calf at 10 days. got 10 so could run as a batch. like you say, drank as much as a proper calf (would have cost £60 then) ate as much as a proper calf and looked still sh!t at 14 months when the proper calves are finished and gone at 12 months! saved £50 incoming cost, took £110 less for them. and the grass rat dairy men can't understand why I don't want anything to do with them! One of my mates bought a ruck of 1/2 kiwi 1/2 jersey calves again £10 each. told me that the way too make them pay was to cut and turn out. he kept them till 27 months and just dumped them in the store market at the end. he just couldn't get them to hold flesh. was feeding them good forage in the winter, not skimping I would have said. gone back to Holsteins now. [/QUOTE]
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